Danish

E447062

Danish is a North Germanic language primarily spoken in Denmark and used as the official language of the country.

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Danish canonical 23

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic language
Indo-European language
North Germanic language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Norwegian
Swedish
developedFrom Old East Norse
hasAncestor Old Norse
linked to: Old Norse language
hasDialects Bornholm Danish
linked to: Bornholmsk

Insular Danish
Jutlandic Danish
hasFeature definite suffix on nouns
grammatical gender
phonemic vowel length
stød
hasISO6391Code da
hasISO6392Code dan
hasISO6393Code dan
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom English
French
Low German
hasMorphologicalType fusional language
hasNumberOfSpeakers around 6 million
hasPeriodOfStandardization 19th century
hasPhonologicalFeature large vowel inventory
reduction of unstressed vowels
hasStandardForm Standard Danish
linked to: Danish language
languageBranch Germanic languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageSubbranch North Germanic languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Norwegian
linked to: Norwegian language
officialLanguageOf Denmark
European Union
Nordic Council
partiallyMutuallyIntelligibleWith Swedish
primaryWordOrder SVO
regulator Danish Language Council
spokenIn Denmark
Faroe Islands
Greenland
usedAsMinorityLanguageIn Germany
Iceland
usedAsSecondLanguageIn Faroe Islands
Greenland
usedIn Danish government
Danish media
education in Denmark
usesScript Latin script
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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